Sunday, October 19, 2008

Twitter Applications (Part – 21)

More twitter applications. If you have developed any such twitter mash up, feel free to send me an email about it. I will be happy to include in the list. Please first check here whether your application is already included or not.

161. Qwitter : This is an interesting twitter application that let you know when any of your followers are not following you any more. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message like this:

“John Gruber (gruber) stopped following you on Twitter after you posted this tweet:

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162. StockTwits : StockTwits is an open, community-powered investment idea and information service. You can think of it as Bloomberg for the little guy and gal. Site is useful for those interested in keeping watch on stocks and trading. You can search for tweets about particular company’s stock as well as it gives a graph for the stock.

163. Twootball : Twootball is a twitter application specifically designed for all those who are crazy for NFL football. It uses hash tag concept. Just add #jets to your tweets and your tweet will appear on Twootball.com as well as on New York Jets game page.

164. Qwitter : Qwitter is a social tool designed to help you quit smoking. What you all have to do is each time you light up, send Qwitter the number of cigarettes you just smoked by posting an update to Twitter in the following format. @iquit 3 That will tell Qwitter you just smoked 3 cigarettes. Every day, Qwitter will add together all the posts you sent that day and add them to your progress graph.

165. TwitterCal : TwitterCal is a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. So now you can update your google calendar using your twitter account. Add 'gcal' as a friend and grant access to your Google Calendar, a bot will forward messages to your Calendar. You can add event to your Google calendar by tweeting a message as "d gcal meeting with john today at 7pm", the event will get directly added to your schedule.

166. CityTweets : The CityTweets Network is made up of individual pages that track (near) real-time Twitter activity for individual cities, listing Tweets from and about that area. You can request your city page if it is not included. Its divides all tweets in two categories. One shows all real-time tweets from that city and another shows all tweets about that city.

167. Twinfluence : twInfluence is a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus. For example, Imagine Twitterer1, who has 10,000 followers - most of which are bots and inactives with no followers of their own. Now imagine Twitterer2, who only has 10 followers - but each of them has 5,000 followers. Who has the most real "influence?" Twitterer2, of course.

168. TwitterTroll : Finding new Twitter friends can be quite a challenge. With so many different people out there where do you start finding like minded people? TwitterTroll.com is a real-time Twitter search engine providing the best way to find new twitter friends. TwitterTroll.com indexes tweets from the public timeline and indexes them for search. This approach makes is much easier to find like minded friends on Twitter.